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Information on how to get musical instruments to play music in a variety of tunings.
See also
The Great Xenharmonic Fixed-Pitch Instrument Database
.
Strings
fretted:
guitars
,
bass
, banjo, mandolin,
ukulele
, balalaika, viol, sitar, etc.
(unfretted)
violin etc.
, oud,
qanun
,
fretless bass
, harps, zithers, hammer dulcimers, dan bau
autoharp
moodswinger
Home Made Canon
pedal steel
Cable Tie Frets
- instruction and examples on using cable ties as frets on a defretted guitar
Brass
:
Trumpet
,
Horn
,
Trombone
(duh!),
Tuba
, digeridoo, alphorn
bwhisperer.com
JI-oriented website, "The Brass Whisperer's main aim is to play with subtle music tunings and coax brass players (and other musicians) into achieving delicious harmonies."
Woodwinds
Reedless Instruments:
Flutes
,
Recorders
,
Whistles
Reed Instruments:
Bassoons
,
Clarinets
,
Saxophones
,
Oboes
Percussion
mallet keyboards
: vibraphone, xylophone,
marimba
, glockenspiel, crotales, lithophone, etc.
tuned drums: timpani, rototoms, pat waing
bells:
carillon
,
conic bellophone
,
tubulong
, amglocken, handbells,
zoomoozophone
,
sound tower/sound cube
lamellophones:
kalimba (mbira)
, marimbula
friction idiophones: musical saw, wine glasses,
nail violin
,
Daxophone
Keyboards
:
Piano
,
Harpsichord
,
Organ
,
Clavichord, but also Synthesizers
Free Reeds
:
Harmonica
Reed Organs, Accordion, Melodica, Khaen, etc.
Others:
udderbot
,
tubulong
,
balloon flute
Web browser based:
ReTuner
Software
,
DAWs
,
plugins
Tuning-agnostic instruments
These instruments can play in any microtonal scale out-of-the-box, because 12edo is not a part of their manufacture:
Fretless string instruments
Fretless bass
Fretless guitar
Violin, viola, cello, double bass (the string quartet is a whole tuning-agnostic ensemble)
Oud
String instruments with one pitch per string
Hammered dulcimer
Wind instruments with a slide or other continuous pitch control
Trombone
Udderbot
Musical saw
Theremin
Daxophone
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See also The Great Xenharmonic Fixed-Pitch Instrument Database .
Tuning-agnostic instruments
These instruments can play in any microtonal scale out-of-the-box, because 12edo is not a part of their manufacture: